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Graham Norton, BBC chat show host, lived in Bandon and attended Bandon Grammar School. His mother still resides there.
#ireland #cork #travel #corkcity #photography #art #irish #corkireland #streetphotography #europe #cork_daily #fashion #irish_daily #love #irlanda #ig_cork #city #ireland_gram #instagood #nature #architecture #corkcitycentre #insta_ireland #irishpassion #hellocork_ #travelphotography #summer #arte #itscorklike #photoofthedayThe Bandon rises at Nowen Hill (one of the Shehy Mountains), to the north of Drimoleague. The river then flows to Dunmanway, before turning eastward towards the twin villages of Ballineen and Enniskean. It then makes its way through the centre of Bandon town, and on to Innishannon and Kilmacsimon, before draining into Kinsale Harbour on Ireland's south coast.

Angling
The River Bandon is famous for its Atlantic salmon fishing: the biggest recorded salmon caught in Ireland since 1991 was landed by Bill Canning of Goresbridge, County Kilkenny on 7 July 2008. Mr Canning's salmon weighed 28 lbs 3 oz (12.8 kg) and is on display in the Munster Arms hotel in Bandon town.

Floods
On 19 and 20 November 2009 the river burst its banks for the first time in many years, causing large-scale flood damage to Bandon town and at other points along the river.

In December 2015, Bandon experienced further flooding as a result of Storm Desmond and Storm Frank.People from Cork are being called on to help break a world record at the end of the month.

The aim is to have the most Harry Potters in the same place at the same time. The current record of 997 is held by a school in Australia.

However, they’ll face some stiff competition from a Wizarding Festival being held in Sheffield on the same weekend with the same intention.

That’s just one of an array of activities to be held as part of this year’s Taste of Bandon and Banshee Festival of Family Fun.

The inaugural festival, which will be held from October 25th to 27th is described as an “autumn celebration of abundance, where we also revel in our Harry Potter connection with the Bandon Banshee.”

A spokesperson for the festival told the Echo: “We chose the name of the Bandon Banshee as a named character in J.K Rowlings' acclaimed Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets given that it was named after the town.”Salmon & Sea-trout: 15th February – 30th September. Sea-trout and brown trout fishing below Innishannon Bridge, closed until 17th March

Salmon fishing
This large river drains a catchment of 235 square miles beginning in the Shehy Mountains of West Cork and ending up in Kinsale Harbour.

The salmon fishing on this river extends from Innishannon up to Togher Castle. Fair run of fish dependent on water. All legal angling methods are allowed depending on the rules for the particular fisheries. Some stretches are fly only.

Sea Trout fishing
Good run of fish depending on water levels. All legal angling methods allowed subject to the rules of the particular fisheries. Some stretches are fly only. The season runs from 15th of February to the 30th of September and the best periods are usually between June and September.


Contacts
Bandon Angling Association
Ballineen/Enniskeane Anglers,
Manch House Fishery,
David Lamb – Kilcoleman Park Fishery
Dunmanway Salmon and Trout AnglersBetween 1911 and 1926, the non-Catholic population of Bandon dropped from 688 (22% of the population) to 375 (13% of the population), a decline of 45.5%. Peter Hart argued in The IRA and its Enemies (1998) that during the Irish War of Independence, Bandon's Protestant population, which was largely unionist, suffered from Irish Republican Army (IRA) reprisals. In particular, ten Protestant men were shot over 27–29 April 1922 (two months before the start of the Civil War), "because they were Protestant."

Niall Meehan argued, however (2008, 2014), that Hart was mistaken. The killings were not "motivated by either land agitation or by sectarian considerations." In Peter Hart, the Issue of Sources, Brian Murphy noted a British intelligence assessment, A Record of the Rebellion in Ireland in 1920–1921, that Hart cited selectively.Hart wrote, "the truth was that, as British intelligence officers recognised, "in the south the Protestants and those who supported the Government rarely gave much information because, except by chance, they had not got it to give".”
Local festivals include the Bandon Summer Fest - a family festival run by volunteers over the August Bank Holiday weekend. The Bandon Music Festival takes place every June Bank Holiday weekend, and has included acts like Mick Flannery, Mundy, The Flaws, Jack L, Fred and The Delerentos.[citation needed] The Bandon Walled Town Festival runs every year on the last weekend of August, and celebrates the heritage of the town with cultural and family entertainment.